Aaron Kramer

Wednesday Series: Wendy Kramer and Rachel Levitsky, St. Mark’s Church, NY, January 11, 1999

Recorded on audiocassette. Recording hosted by the Library of Congress.

1. Side A (47:58): link
2. Side B (47:56): link

Broadcast over the University of the Air, Costa Rica, June 29, 1995

Discussion on his Denmark Vesey, reading excerpts, and reading some of his favorite poems by African Americans (53:20): MP3

Interview by Matthew Paris, Brooklyn, NY, June 1995

Part 1: Watch on Media.sas

Part 2: Watch on Media.sas

On the University of the Air, Costa Rica (Radio for Peace Inf.), C 1995(?)

Discussion & reading his poems on African American themes (1937-48) (55:03): MP3

Interview by Geral Stillman, WBAI, November 9, 1994

Discussion and reading his translations of Yiddish Poetry (1:01:46): MP3

Ideas and Images, September 16, 1992

#4 Great Book Series, Bay Shore/Brightwaters Library, April 26, 1992

Discussion of Leaves of Grass, (1:51:25): MP3

At Suffolk Community College, November 13, 1991

Reading and discussion of his poetry (1:06:59): MP3

Voices and Visions, Amityville, March 15, 1990

On Walt Whitman (1:03:21): MP3

Voices and Visions, So. Country Library, October 10, 1989

audio damage around 1:03:00

On Ezra Pound,(1:19:48): MP3

Voices and Visions, So. Country Library, September 26, 1989

On Wallace Stevens (65:26): MP3

At Greenburgh Library, May 4 1989

• Reading from A Century of Yiddish Poetry and Mid-Western Y (74:23):MP3
• Alternate "blemished" Recording (61:36): MP3

Voices and Visions, So. Country Public Library, April 4 1989

On William Carlos Williams (2:04:51): MP3

Robert Frost Session at the 5th County Public Library, Bell Port NY, March 21, 1989

Last 15 minutes not recorded

Incomplete Recording MP3

Poetry Reading, October 17, 1988

Watch on Media.sas

Reading Yiddish Poetry, 1987

Part 1: Watch on Media.sas

Part 2: Watch on Media.sas

Reading Poetry at David Home, Pacific Palisades, CA, on December 28, 1986

• Tape #1 [begins with uncollected an recent poems, then selections from recent publications, and translated yiddish poetry] (82:02): MP3
• Tape #2 [begins with Carousel Parkway] (32:05): MP3

Complete video recording (1:34:43)

Complete audio recording (1:34:09): MP3

On Walt Whitman: Drum-Taps, April 16, 1986

Full (42:42): MP3

Denmark Vesey Oratorio on May 10, 1985, First Unitarian Church Choir, L.A.

Full recording (33:05): MP3

At Moksha Community Education Center, Amityville, September 21, 1984

A Reading and discussion of his later work, from Rushkinsky's Hat to In Wicked Times (1:35:36): MP3

At Donnell Library, Pete Seeger fails to appear, June 11, 1984

• Part 1 (60:19): MP3
• Part 2 (30:46): MP3

At Whitman's Birthplace in Huntington, NY on November 6*, 1982, (*possibly November 8 1982*)

Orientation on Whitman (73:45): MP3

At the Library of Congress, April 6, 1982

Reading from Rumshinsky's Hat: 11 poems, On The Way to Palermo: 12 poems, and Carousel Parkway (59:56): MP3

Emily Dickinson 150th Birthday Celelbration, Dowling College, November 25, 1980

Full Recording (93:36): MP3

The Poetry of the 30s (WNYC June 18, 1980)

Full Recording (61:51): MP3

LI Writers Conference, Suffolk Community College, Selden, NY, April 16, 1980

Part 1: Watch on Media.sas

At Baychester Library, October 13, 1979

On his anti-McCarthy Writings, Parts 1+2 (61:51): MP3

Peekskill 30 years after (WBAI), September 3, 1979

Full Recording (61:58): MP3

William Heyen Reads at Dowling College, April 23, 1979

Full Recording with introduction by Aaron Kramer (98:27): MP3

Aaron Kramer reads A Rose for Granada, Poems of Spain, WYNC, Oct 12, 1978

Full Recording (45:41): MP3

Aaron Kramer reads excerpts of William Blake's Prophetic Works, WNYC, August 11, 1977

Celebrating the 150 year anniversary of the death of William Blake
Hosted by Felix Liam

Full Recording (55:04): MP3

An Aaron Kramer Concert, Dowling College Arts Festival, March 18, 1976

recorded by Coco Gordon

Selection of Poems:

1. Introduction (0:22): MP3
2. Lonely Shoes (1:15): MP3
3. Intervals (1:51): MP3
4. A Song for Singers (4:27): MP3
5. Guitar and Dry Leaves (1:05): MP3
6. Summer Night (1:30): MP3
7. What the Guitar Sang (1:33): MP3
8. A Witness to Magic (2:08): MP3
9. Beethoven at the Stadium (5:21): MP3
10. Night at the Concertgebouw (4:56): MP3

Complete Recording:

• Part 1 (48:12): MP3
• Part 2 (48:18): MP3
• Part 3 (47:36): MP3

WNYC Spoken Words, February 1976

Aaron Kramer's Poems of Travel (54:19): MP3

1. Reading his translation of Avron Reison Part 1 (28:23): MP3
2. Reading his translation of Avron Reison Part 2 (20:34): MP3

1. Introduction (2:19): MP3
2. On Lamb (27:26): MP3
3. On Landor (24:08): MP3

Complete reading (1:11:30): MP3

1. Section 1 (1:25): MP3
2. Section 2 (3:05): MP3
3. Section 3 (3:23): MP3
4. Section 4 (1:57): MP3
5. Section 5 (1:57): MP3
6. Section 6 (3:10): MP3
7. Section 7 (1:51): MP3
8. Section 8 (2:15): MP3
9. Section 9 (0:45): MP3
10. Section 10 (2:31): MP3
11. Section 11 (1:39): MP3
12. Section 12 (0:49): MP3
13. Section 13 (2:07): MP3
14. Section 14 (1:42): MP3
15. Section 15 (6:47): MP3
16. Section 16 (2:37): MP3
17. Section 17 (0:34): MP3
18. Section 18 (0:58): MP3
19. Section 19 (1:26): MP3
20. Section 20 (2:58): MP3
21. Section 21 (2:18): MP3
22. Section 22 (2:49): MP3
23. Section 23 (1:52): MP3
24. Section 24 (5:36): MP3
25. Section 25 (2:06): MP3
26. Section 26 (2:41): MP3
27. Section 27 (0:45): MP3
28. Section 28 (2:12): MP3
29. Section 29 (0:43): MP3
30. Section 30 (1:22): MP3
31. Section 31 (1:57): MP3
32. Section 32 (2:25): MP3

• Full recording (Both Sides) (58:32): MP3
• Liner Notes

Reading Whittier (1973)

Complete recording (54:36): MP3

Lecture on Morris Rosenfeld, Z. Libin and Leon Kobrin, YIVO's modern Yiddish Literature Series, April 15, 1970

Full Recording (01:04:01): MP3

WNYC on May 28, 1969

World War II Poems (56:10): MP3

The Poetry of Melville, WNYC, Feburary 22,1968

Full Discussion MP3

At the Langston Hughes Memorial, WNYC, May 16, 1968

Full Recording (58:33): MP3

On WNYC, November 23, 1966

Reading new poems (55:51): MP3

Reading for KPFK Broadcasts, September 1963

from Rumshinsky's Hat (4:42): MP3

Interviewing Mary Kramer, with Helaine, August 1963

Complete Interview (26:49): MP3

Complete program (29:08): MP3 / (22:50): MP3

1. Introduction (1:16): MP3
2. on Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came (1:32): MP3
3. Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came (16:24): MP3
4. on Andrea del Sarto (1:52): MP3
5. Andrea del Sarto (18:25): MP3
6. on Abt Vogler (1:30): MP3
7. Abt Vogler (10:50): MP3
8. Closing comments (1:15): MP3

• Part 1 (30:09): MP3
• Part 2 (23:20): MP3

• Complete Program (37:11): MP3

• Discussing Morris Rosenfeld's poetry (30:10): MP3
• Reading translations of Morris Rosenfeld's work (15:12): MP3

Poets of the Sweatshop I: Morris Winchevsky and David Edelshtat, WBAI, November 18, 1961

• Complete Program (28:41): MP3

From WBAI's program on Elizabeth Barrett Browning, November 5, 1961

Incomplete program (26:35): MP3

Recording WBAI: The Poet in NY, exerpts from "The Tune of the Calliope," September 30, 1961

1. Album (1:57): MP3
2. Ballad of West 13th Street (1:57): MP3
3. Storm (1:05): MP3
4. After the Ballet (1:21): MP3
5. The Baseball Machine (1:48): MP3
6. The Hudson (2:12): MP3
7. Dialogue (2:39): MP3
8. See America First (1:19): MP3
9. Alma Mater (1:54): MP3
10. The Alarm (0:44): MP3
11. Waterfront (1:40): MP3
12. Airshaft Lullaby (0:39): MP3
13. Summer Night (0:42): MP3
14. The Tune of the Calliope (1:51): MP3
15. Christmas Trees (1:28): MP3
16. April on Avenue C (5:09): MP3

Complete reading (32:13): MP3

Serenade: Poets of New York, Folkway Records, 1959

1. The Rockabye Love (1:22): MP3
2. A Serenade (0:44): MP3
3. Work Day (0:59): MP3
4. The Lovers (1:10): MP3
5. Treatment (1:12): MP3
6. Nocturne (0:59): MP3
7. Train Song (1:16): MP3
8. Chains (1:41): MP3
9. Rush Hour (2:15): MP3
10. In the Lunch Wagon (2:13): MP3
11. Sadie (1:47): MP3
12. Unemployed Song (1:06): MP3
13. Boardwalk Blues (1:47): MP3
14. Old Mattress In the Lots (2:38): MP3
15. Halloween (2:14):
16. Song of New York (1:22): MP3
17. By Morris Rosenfeld: The Ghetto Tree (2:20): MP3
18. By Morris Rosenfeld: The Teardrop Millionaire (0:56): MP3
19. By Morris Rosenfeld: My Little Son (2:07): MP3
20. By Morris Rosenfeld: My Camping Ground (1:14): MP3
21. By Maxwell Bodenheim: Spring, 1943 (2:36): MP3
22. By Maxwell Bodenheim: To a Rose (2:15): MP3
23. By Maxwell Bodenheim: Sincerely Yours (1:24): MP3
24. By Alexander F. Berkman: Letter (1:12): MP3
• Complete Program (39:16): MP3

Roll the Forbidden Drums!, a prepublication reading recorded by George David, 1954

• Sides A+B (54:44): MP3
• from the cassette case: "Many of the shorter poems included, and "The Tinderbox," with a great deal of commentary--focusing on the current political climate of McCarthyism.

Reading William Blake Poems, date unknown

• Complete Recording (93:36): MP3

Reading Thoreau's Poetry, date unknown

Complete Recording (60:22): MP3

Aaron Kramer on PennSound Daily

• February 21, 2011: "Aaron Kramer Reads Whitman's "Song of Myself""
• April 14, 2010: "Aaron Kramer: New Author Page"

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